There goes another one

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Judge Rules Against Piracy Site
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Score one for the entertainment industry: It will soon get a little
harder to download a movie off the internet for free. TorrentSpy, a
web site that helps internet users find downloadable but copyrighted
materials such as movies for no charge, may be shuttered following
yesterday's ruling. A judge in U.S. District Court in the Central
District of California terminated the copyright lawsuit against the
web site that was filed by a group of entertainment companies that own
movie studios. The ruling means the web site is liable for copyright
infringement. The judge said in her ruling that TorrentSpy employees
destroyed evidence and lied under oath. The court has yet to place a
dollar amount for damages caused by piracy or an injunction. U.S.- based internet users can't access the company's Netherlands-based
servers but anyone outside the U.S. can. The studios' victory is
somewhat hollow, however, because there are other foreign-based web
sites still out there. The studios hope that the lawsuit will at
least discourage legitimate advertisers from supporting such sites.
(http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/News_shorts_31/index
.asp 12/18/07)